Marc Buyens
Bonheiden, Belgium
just choosing paths...
Analyst, management consultant and managing director of Xpragma
Marc founded Xpragma in 1999 after a 20+ years career in the IT-sector where he held various technical, commercial and management positions in companies such as CIG (later acquired by CSC), Tandem Computers (now: HP) and Candle Corporation (now: IBM).
His current interests focus on the boundary of technological evolution, organisational change and business strategy: a messy world of unfulfilled promises.
Some of Marc's ideas and insights are published via the Xpragmatic View, a regular column on his website, http://www.xpragma.com/, also available as an RSS-feed at http://www.xpragma.com/english/rss/xpven.xml.
MSc - Civil Engineer electromechanics - Catholique University of Leuven (Belgium), MBA - Vlerick Leuven Ghent Management School (Belgium).
Private interests: nature, music, literature, travel, philosophy, cosmology, modern art
Marc founded Xpragma in 1999 after a 20+ years career in the IT-sector where he held various technical, commercial and management positions in companies such as CIG (later acquired by CSC), Tandem Computers (now: HP) and Candle Corporation (now: IBM).
His current interests focus on the boundary of technological evolution, organisational change and business strategy: a messy world of unfulfilled promises.
Some of Marc's ideas and insights are published via the Xpragmatic View, a regular column on his website, http://www.xpragma.com/, also available as an RSS-feed at http://www.xpragma.com/english/rss/xpven.xml.
MSc - Civil Engineer electromechanics - Catholique University of Leuven (Belgium), MBA - Vlerick Leuven Ghent Management School (Belgium).
Private interests: nature, music, literature, travel, philosophy, cosmology, modern art
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Social media on the inside - KnowledgeBoardSocial media on the inside Social media on the inside Social media is most transformative when used inside the company, says Web 2.0 expert Leon Benjamin - and the implications are far reaching... Are customers suffering from ‘work rage’? This phenomenon hit the news as far back as 2001 ...
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Thoughts on Enterprise 2.0 and Corporate Culture Change « Mark Bower’s BlogEnterprise 2.0 technologies enable people who are doing the “real” work within organizations to bypass their middle management and connect and collaborate with each other directly as well as update and engage upper management directly. By cutting out middle management, the savings are not only ...
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12 Rules For Bringing 'Social' To Your Business | SocialComputingJournal.com12 Rules For Bringing 'Social' To Your Business Related Links Rarely do I take a negative viewpoint on new developments, especially in technology. But lately, with the seemingly runaway rise of highly successful social networks like Facebook and Twitter, it's become clear that adding the ...
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Wirearchy · Productivity in a Networked Era – Assessing ROII (Return on Investment in Interaction)Productivity in a Networked Era – Assessing ROII (Return on Investment in Interaction) Jay Cross and I recently co-authored this piece for CLO Magazine. . Today’s networked era requires a new way to make investment decisions that incorporates intangible assets and more accurately depicts ...
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Your Employees Are Your Customers, But Are They Buying? - HBR Now - Harvard Business ReviewYour best salespeople possess vast knowledge about how to connect with and motivate people--and perhaps take the company to the next level. But they rarely get to share their knowledge with senior managers. As a practitioner and student of business-to-business selling for more than half a ...
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Business processes are not your businessHello Kurt, Thanks for the comments. You are of course right, but you are a BPM-guy. Let me tell you a bit about the background of this. Several years ago, I participated as a coach in the e-Business Strategy training program of the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School in Belgium. This was a ...Marc Buyens added to Business Interaction Management (BIM) 3 months ago
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The Enterprise 2.0 Recovery PlanOff-topic but a few of his ideas are interesting in the context of interactions within an organisation.Marc Buyens added to Business Interaction Management (BIM) 6 months ago
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Add items shared with you to interest feedThat is correct. However, the problem (for me) is that I pay little attention to such e-mail messages. I work a lot off-site at customer premises where I prefer not mixing my personal stuff and theirs. Therefore, I only read my personal e-mail once or twice a day. At such moment, I mostly ignore ...Marc Buyens added 7 months ago
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HolarchyVery valid points and very visually described. I like the idea of diving managers. Still, nothing blocks them from doing so today. In fact, most of what you describe can also be possible in a traditional hierarchical organisation. Perhaps no natural fit, but still possible and I can even say ...Marc Buyens added to Organizational Behavior 7 months ago
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HolarchyInteresting questions and the very essence of the twine I started myself on “Organisational change”. Unfortunately, there is no straightforward answer. Rearranging the boxes in a graph is an interesting starting point for discussion, but does not provide a solution. As an example, in your ...Marc Buyens added to Organizational Behavior 7 months ago
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